What If It's NOT Depression? Podcast

I had the pleasure of interviewing Deb Matthew MD again. The last time was over two years ago in July 2021. She is always a chock full of information!! As you may know, she suffered for many years because nothing in her medical training helped her understand why she didn't feel good.  She doesn't want anyone else to have to go through that! 
Dr. Deb, The Happy Hormones Doctor, is a best-selling author, international speaker, educator, wife, and mom of four boys. After suffering for years with fatigue and irritability due to hormone imbalances, her quest to resolve her personal health led her to change everything about her practice of medicine. She has been featured on national podcasts, radio, and broadcast shows, including NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX.
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She wants to share with you her E-book called "This is NOT Normal!  A Busy Woman's Guide to Symptoms of Hormone Imbalance".
If you want to know more about her, visit her Website, Instagram and Facebook account: 

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To your health and happiness

Rhode Island, unfortunately, is not known for innovation, so I’m always excited about different technologies that are available to us, whether it’s to assist with diagnosis or to treat specific conditions. What is new to the area is BrainWaves! BrainWaves is MeRT, which stands for Magnetic EEG/EKG -Guided Resonance Therapy. It is a highly customized use of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), based on sophisticated diagnostics. It is a non-invasive, painless, and drug-free option for the treatment of a wide range of conditions. I invited Cofounder, Joshua Slepkow to tell us more about it. (His partner, Mark Turshen MD was not able to join us.)

Some of you are in psychotherapy presently and have had a nagging problem repeatedly come up again and again. You’re probably tired of talking about it. Yet, you recognize that there is something about it that is preventing you from moving forward in your life. Some of you have left psychotherapy because you’ve decided that talking in circles just doesn’t change it.

Small traumas show up as unresolved conflicts. We spend much of our time talking about things that have happened in a very cerebral fashion and possibly express a lot of reactive emotions. However, there are other emotions underneath those reactive emotions that are more difficult to get at because touching on them puts us in a vulnerable space, and that sometimes doesn’t feel safe.

As a result, we exhibit behavior to avoid or suppress these feelings. However, even if we know this and try as we might to lean in and breathe through them, try to unravel them, it still evades us. This is hard work!! What are we to do?

Enter hypnosis! Hypnosis helps us to get right to the emotion and rewrite or re-boot the program. I’ve met a number of hypnotherapists, but Dr. Tara Perry is different.

She knows how to dive in and follow that thread of emotion that is connected to that ever-repeating conflict that keeps poking its head up in the present every so often. This is a root cause of depression and anxiety.

Dr. Tara Perry is a Clinical Hypnotherapist & Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. She specializes in Core Trauma Transformation, helping people get to the root of their biggest block, connect to their authentic selves, and thrive in deep confident peace. For 25 years, Dr. Perry has successfully treated celebrities, Olympians, first responders, world record holders, doctors, scientists, teachers, parents, and children. She has been featured on Lifetime television, The Los Angeles Times, Fox Sports West, CosMed Magazine, and more. For 10 years, Dr. Perry taught at the #1 Acupuncture College in California.

In 2000, she was chosen to be the first acupuncture teacher at the famous Arthur Ashe Center at UCLA. Dr. Perry hosts her own podcast as well--available on all major platforms called Next Level Healing.

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You can get her FREE guided meditation: https://consulttara.com.

You can find her at her:

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To your health and happiness!

When I see patients and make certain recommendations, most people are immediately excited about getting to the bottom of things and focus on the testing and ordering the supplements. Testing and taking pills have been ingrained into us. Many understand that diet and physical movement are important so they get motivated to dive right in and make shifts in habits to incorporate these changes.
The hardest part for my patients is stress reduction, settling their bodies into rest and relaxation - starting breathwork exercises throughout the day and using applications like Insight Timer for a 10-minute meditation is hard. (It takes 3 days of being on vacation for some people to finally feel relaxed.) It feels foreign or uncomfortable to get to “know” oneself on that level. Does this resonate with you?
These changes are just as important as testing and supplements, so when you wonder why you are not getting well, this is the answer. Stress to the body is a HUGE piece of it. The immune system is responsible for defense and repair. Repair doesn't happen until the danger is over, but if the body doesn't believe that, its your brain's job at central control to let the body know that. This is when your brain sends signals to the body to let it know the "war" is over. Put away the shields and guns. This is where Quantum Biology comes in. People start shifting when you start implementing what Dr. Catherine discusses in this episode.
Dr. Catherine Clinton is a licensed naturopathic physician and has spent over 15 years helping people overcome their health issues. Diagnosed with two autoimmune conditions and Lyme disease while in medical school, she began the long and difficult journey of healing- a path that led to the commitment to help others to not only heal physically but to return to the relationships we evolved over millennia with for a deeper sense of health and belonging.
By healing herself and patients like her, she discovered that true health comes from our relationships. Dr. Catherine has learned how our quantum biological system is intimately and inseparably connected to the world around us. Our relationship with the dirt beneath our feet, the sun, the wind, the water, the plants, the seasons, each other- that is the real medicine.
Her mission is to empower as many people as she can with this knowledge to encourage the paradigm shift, we so desperately need.
She shares for your reading pleasure, the Quantum Fascia Guide https://www.drcatherineclinton.com/quantum-fascia-guide
You can learn more about her at these places.

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To your health and happiness,

I was so excited to have Dr. Tom O'Bryan on my Vodcast that I got ahead of myself in asking him questions! He is one of my oldest mentors at the Institute of Functional Medicine. I'm glad he made time to talk about gluten and how it can be potentially toxic to the body, including the brain. There is so much research coming out about gluten nowadays that I wanted the foremost expert on gluten to tell it to you. 

Dr. Tom O’Bryan is a recognized world expert on gluten and its impact on health. He is an internationally recognized and sought-after speaker and workshop leader specializing in the complications of Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity, Celiac Disease, and the development of Autoimmune Diseases, as they occur inside and outside of the intestines.

He is considered the 'Sherlock Holmes' for chronic disease and teaches that recognizing and addressing the underlying mechanisms that activate an immune response is the map to the highway toward better health. He holds teaching Faculty positions with the Institute for Functional Medicine and the National University of Health Sciences. He has trained and certified tens of thousands of practitioners around the world with an advanced understanding of the impact of wheat sensitivity and the development of individual autoimmune diseases.

He's written several books, hosted the Gluten Summit, and created the documentary series “Betrayal: The Autoimmune Disease Solution They’re Not Telling You." If you are a practitioner, consider getting certified through The Certified Gluten-Free Practitioner Course.

Here is the link for the article he mentioned regarding houseplants: https://thedr.com/houseplants/.

You may find him at his:

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There are many ways to look at breast cancer – the metabolic – taking into consideration the pathways that promote cancer; the environmental – how increased exposure to toxins is becoming a greater influence; the emotional – how trauma, either recent or many years prior, contributes. But simply put, a cancer diagnosis is a very loud message that there is a loss of harmony – usually in more than one area of the woman’s life. So, the task at hand becomes how to restore harmony – physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Carol Lourie is a Naturopath, Acupuncturist, Homeopath, and Holistic Breast Health Expert with more than 35 years of experience understanding complex, chronic diseases. She believes healing is always possible and her mission is to empower women with the tools needed to deeply recover their health and restore their life.

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Here is a FREE smoothie recipe to drink during treatments - https://carollourie.com/pages/healing-smoothie-opt-in

If you are looking for a functional medicine doctor who specializes in oncology, locate a provider here: http://www.intergrativeonc.rog

Carol’s contact information is:

Another person to follow with regards to healing from cancer is Nalini Chilkov L.Ac., O.M.D. - https://nalinichilkov.com/the-healing-cancer-support-system/ Dr. Chilkov trains physicians at the Institute for Functional Medicine and was a key speaker at the IFM Annual International Conference which I attended in early June 2023.

To be clear, these resources are complementary to conventional cancer treatments, not to take the place of them.

I hope you find them helpful. Let me know what you think.

To your health and happiness,

Have you ever wondered why you are not losing despite following a diet and exercising? Well, you probably never heard of leptin and creating metabolic flexibility.

I interviewed Dr. Bindiya Gandhi who calls herself the Leptin Resistance Expert about this very topic.  She is a double board-certified Integrative & Functional Medicine Doctor, who helps thousands transform their overall health. She is the medical director at Atlanta Functional and Integrative Medicine - Revive ATL MD a comprehensive clinic focused on total body healing, including decreasing inflammation, improving hormonal imbalance, helping women get pregnant, weight loss resistance, chronic stress, gut health, and more.

After dealing with her own medical crisis and eventually improving her overall health to rebalance her hormones and conceive naturally, she has been focused on finding the CAUSE of issues instead of treating the symptoms and holds a special passion for female hormonal cases.

She has worked with A-listers including professional singers and athletes to reclaim their health. Her newest podcast Reset Renew Revive has gained tons of traction since its launch in April 2020. Bindiya regularly engages with her community of 43.1K followers via Instagram, where she produces compelling content and educational material to continue to inspire people to live healthier lifestyles. Check her out at the links below.

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And as mentioned in the interview, she has a link to a quiz on her website to determine whether you might have a high leptin level or leptin resistance ⁠here⁠.

Hope you’ll learn something new!
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If you have been diagnosed with anxiety or ADHD, this episode is for you! 
For over 20 years Kitti Andrews has been helping people to get unstuck and out of a state of overwhelm by getting their physical and mental surroundings under control by helping them to declutter their space and brain. She is your Thought Organizer. 
Kitti has written, directed, and performed over 800 online videos devoted to decluttering the five life pillars, which furnish the content for her daily newsletter. 
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